It is understandable, to say the least, why football fans can get so frustrated at the amount of their money that ends up in the hands of football agents. Even in the era of the billionaire foreign benefactor, the theory has always been that the fans’ wages pay the players, through the medium of paying for tickets. For there to be other well-rewarded recipients almost feels like a betrayal of that.

Ben Bernanke is still living up to his "Helicopter" nickname. Since 2008, the US Federal Reserve chairman has carpet-bombed the world's biggest economy with more than $3trn (£1.87trn) through three doses of quantitative easing.